Snæfellsjökull in literature

Deutsch: Snæfellsjökull ist ein subglazialer Stratovulkan im Westen von Island. Er hat über die Jahrhunderte immer wieder Esoteriker und Schriftsteller inspiriert.

English: Snæfellsjökull is a subglacial stratovolcano in the west of Iceland. Throughout many centuries, the glacier volcano has inspired esoterics and writers.

Español: El Snæfellsjökull es un estratovolcán situado en el oeste de Islandia. Durante muchos siglos, el glaciovolcano inspiró los esscritores.

Français : Snæfellsjökull est un stratovolcan sous-glaciaire dans l'ouest de l'Islande. Pendant des siècles, le volcan sous-glaciaire a inspiré les esotériques et les écrivains.

Íslenska: Snæfellsjökull er smár jökull yfir stórum eldfjalli vestast á Snæfellsnesi. Eldfjallið var oft hugmyndagjafin fyrir rithöfunda.

See also: Snæfellsjökull

The Saga of Bárður Snæfellsás

The locations of one of the famous medieval sagas, the Saga of Bárður Snæfellsás, are at and around the volcano. The saga is part of the cycle "Sagas of the Icelanders".

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  The volcano Stapafell with the sculpture of Bárður by Ragnar Kjartansson
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  The half troll's swimming pool: The maar Bárðarlaug
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  Bárðarlaug with Snæfellsjökull in the background
• Icelandic pronunciation of the saga's title

The novel "Journey to the center of the Earth" by Jules Verne

The volcano is also location to big parts of the famous novel "Journey to the center of the Earth" (Voyage au centre de la terre, 1864) by the French author Jules Verne. In the novel, a professor and his entourage, among them two youngsters, travel through the interior of Snæfellsjökull to the center of the Earth and resurface in Sicily by passing through the entrails of Mount Etna.

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  Title with volcano
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  They could have ventured into the underground from here - somewhere between the summit domes of Snæfellsjökull
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  Illustration with volcano
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  Within the volcano, drawing by w:Edouard Riou
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  Descending
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  A good place for resurfacing: One of Mount Etna's main craters

The novel "Under the glacier" by Halldór Kiljan Laxness

The Nobel Prize winning Icelandic author Halldór Kiljan Laxness placed the plot of one of his novels in the vicinity of Snæfellsjökull. The novel, wherein a young Lutheran diacon is sent to check on work and whereabouts of a strange minister, runs under the allusional title Under the glacier (Kristnihald undir Jökli, 1968)

• Pronunciation of the author's name
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  Halldór Laxness
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  Under the glacier: In this region, on the southern shores of Snæfellsnes is to be found the location of the plot.
• Pronunciation of the novel's Icelandic title